"Tell Me"

The opening to the first song to be released from Dark Dark Dark's third album, Who Needs Who, goes a little like Beach House's "Real Love"; stuck piano chords flinching like a beetle on its back. Eventually it flips and finds a skippy pace, a briskness that reflects the way Nona Marie Invie is attempting to dispense with the present to get back to a time "when you cherished me… when your hands moved over me." It's warm, worn, and seemingly sung from the wooden floorboards of a house, where all the other possessions have been sold off in the knowingly vain hope that pouring every emotion you've got into this instrument might fuel the domestic vessel's take-off to a better time.